Land-use modifications and ecological implications over the past 160 years in the central Apennine mountains
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Today’s Mediterranean landscapes result from the interaction between ecosystems and anthropogenic activities. This study aims to assess how the land-use changes between the mid-nineteenth and end of the twentieth century influenced the temporal continuity of the ecosystems in central Apennines (central Italy). Information was acquired from Gregorian cadastral maps, orthophotos and aerial photos (1850, 1954, 1980 and 2010), digitised and georeferenced using QGIS 3.10.1 software. Marked changes in land-use types were found. From 1850 to 1954, grasslands were widely transformed into arable lands, but in the next 60 years they changed again into new grasslands and forests. Forests underwent a slow but continuous expansion from 1850 to 2010. Only a small percentage of the forest and grassland patches (14 and 16%, respectively) have seen ecological continuity. These considerations call attention to temporal continuity of ecosystems, together with the historical dynamism of landscapes, in defining land management and nature conservation policies
Agriculture · Arable land · Archaeology · Cadastre · Cartography · Dynamism · Ecosystem · Environmental resource management · Geography · Georeference · Grassland · Historical ecology · Land management · Land use · Physical geography · Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management · Ecology · Ecology, Conservation, and Geographical Studies · Environmental Science · Land Use and Ecosystem Services
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